In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 12 The Use of Spiritual Gifts 12 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be unaware. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led. 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no […]
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God’s Created Order
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 11:2-34 2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I handed them down to you. 3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. 4 Every […]
Examples For Us
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 9:1–11:1 Paul’s Use of Freedom 9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3 My […]
Don’t Be A Stumbling Block
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 8 Take Care with Your Liberty 8 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes one conceited, but love edifies people. 2 If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; 3 but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed […]
Til’ Death Do Us Part
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 7 Teaching on Marriage 7 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3 The husband must fulfill his duty to […]
Do Not Be Deceived
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 5-6 Sexual Immorality Rebuked 5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife. 2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed […]
Build On A Firm Foundation
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 3-4 Foundations for Living 3 And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but only as fleshly, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to consume it. But even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For since […]
Fully Rely On God
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 1:18—2:16 The Wisdom of God 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the understanding of those who have understanding, I will confound.” 20 Where is […]
Together In Agreement
In The Word Read: 1 Corinthians 1:1-17 Appeal to Unity 1 Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2 To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: 3 Grace […]
All In
In The Word Read: Exodus 39-40 The Priestly Garments 39 Now from the violet, purple, and scarlet material they made finely woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 2 He made the ephod of gold and of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen. 3 Then they hammered […]